W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.”
“When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.”
Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love
“When backbone becomes a relic,
and sentiments inconvenient,
it's not progress but the
beginning of doom and derangement.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“When backed up against a wall, dig deep, demand excellence, stand tall, and be strong.”
“When backing companies, I always look for industries that are ripe for disruption.”
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“When bad experiences are over, when termites have been cleaned out, it is important to fill the holes left by them. Open holes become invitation to red ants. Fill them. Revive your hobbies. Do the things that empower your inner self.”
“When bad luck has pass good luck will come.”
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
“When bad news is riding high and despair in fashion, when loud mouths and corruption seem to own center stage, when some keep crying that the country is going to the dogs, remember it’s always been going to the dogs in the eyes of some, and that 90 percent, or more, of the people are good people, generous-hearted, law-abiding, good citizens who get to work on time, do a good job, love their country, pay their taxes, care about their neighbors, care about their children’s education, and believe, rightly, as you do, in the ideals upon which our way of life is founded.”
Source: The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
“when bad people start doing good things with bad motives, bad people won't become good people but the world will start doubting the goodness of good things!”
“When bad strikes, most likely you will not get an answer when you ask, “Why?”
Your strength must come from having faith that someday the answer will come and then it will all make sense.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“When bad things happen to men we say it’s terrible, but when bad things happen to women we say that’s just a cultural practice,” says Lou de Baca, U.S. Ambassador at Large, Office to Combat and Monitor Human Trafficking.”
Source: In Our Backyard: A Christian Perspective on Human Trafficking in the United States
“When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.”
“When bad things happen, part of us might go away. It's a survival technique. You can't stand to be around when there's so much grief or pain in your life so part of you goes away. Shamans call this soul loss.”
“When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.”
Source: The Empathy Exams: Essays
“When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.”
“When baking bread, a process happens called “oven spring.” The high heat of the oven releases the water from the dough as steam and yeast help release carbon dioxide from the sugars. The steam and carbon dioxide cause rapid expansion in the loaf’s
volume. I think, sometimes, of what happened that night with Charlie as a kind of oven spring for my life. (Life Spring)”
Source: Each of Us Killers
“When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a gallery marshall.”
“When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"”
“When bands come from that underground scene and go into the mainstream, people just hate it. And it blows my mind. If you're saying you don't like what pop culture is, then change it. And when someone does make an effort to change it, everyone rebels against it and hates it. You can't win. People just want that division to exist. They don't want that division to go away.”
“When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.”
“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money”
“When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.”
“When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers’ accounts.”
“When banks place credits into your account, they are merely pretending to lend you money. In reality, they have nothing to lend. Even the money that non-indebted depositors have placed with them was originally created out of nothing in response to someone else's loan. So what entitles the banks to collect rent on nothing? It is immaterial that men everywhere are forced by law to accept these nothing certificates in exchange for real goods and services. We are talking here not about what is legal, but what is moral.”
“When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him.”
“When Barack Obama was caught telling Dmitry Medvedev, "Tell Vlad to be patient. We'll get rid of our nukes after I win reelection and I'll have more flexibility." That was in 2012, right before the election.”
“When Barbarossa commences, the world will hold its breath and make no comment.”
“When Barlinnie’s Prison doctor, Dr Danson, came to see Dingus, he turned in disgust at the state Dingus was left to lie in. Doctor Danson refused to treat him as he knew Dingus’s injuries were life threatening, he told the top warden that Dingus would need to be rushed to Glasgow Royal Infirmary for emergency surgery. The screws in the seg block refused to listen to the doctor, they pushed and manhandled their own doctor out of Dingus’s cell and threatened him with a severe beating if he made anything public about Dingus’s injuries.”
Source: Scottish Hard Bastards
“When barriers are put in front of you, it's God or the universe asking you to remember who you are, and reminding you not to let yourself be defined by things outside of you.”
“When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn’t even bother trying. Savage Mac wants to invite it to come out and play. I think she’s nuts. Nuts, I tell you.”
Source: Faefever: Fever Series
“When Bart was on the plane home from Iceland, he swore that he would never let anything bother him again. But returning home to news of his father's cancer had cut Bart out at the knees. Along with profound sadness, he feels cheated. He managed to stay alive and make it home despite untold horrors; it's not fair that Kelley is now dying. Kelley won't be around to see Bart get married or have children. He won't know if Bart makes a success of himself or not. It taps into Bart's oldest resentment: Bart's three older siblings have gotten a lot more of Kelley than Bart has. They've gotten the best of him, and Bart, the sole child from Kelley's marriage to Mitzi, has had to make do with what was left over.”
“When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.”
“When basic human needs are ignored, rejected, or invalidated by those in roles and positions to appropriately meet them; when the means by which these needs have been previously met are no longer available: and when prior abuse has already left one vulnerable for being exploited further, the stage is set for the possibility these needs will be prostituted. This situation places a survivor who has unmet needs in an incredible dilemma. She can either do without or seek the satisfaction of mobilized needs through some "illegitimate" source that leaves her increasingly divided from herself and ostracized from others.
While meeting needs in this way resolves the immediate existential experience of deprivation and abandonment. it produces numerous other difficulties. These include experiencing oneself as “bad” or "weak" for having such strong needs; experiencing shame and guilt for relying on “illegitimate” sources of satisfaction: experiencing a loss of self-respect for indulging in activities contrary to personal moral standards of conduct; risking the displeasure and misunderstanding of others important to her; and opening oneself to the continued abuse and victimization of perpetrators who are all too willing to selfishly use others for their own pleasure and purposes under the guise of being 'helpful.”
“When beautiful woman attracts money , she can't achieve a good end.”
“when beautiful women get angry, it scares people. Ugly women get mad and it’s just comical, right?”
Source: Tokyo Decadence
“When beauty ends, the beauty of deeds remains.”
“When Beauty evokes an ethereal, colourful art,as it paints a material or a body,to render an Earthly wish,as its mesmerizing shapes give a fanciful glow for the smile lost Poetic hearts,ah! yet wonder,how we wander high!”
“When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.”
Source: The City and the Stars
“When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn’t need to show up anywhere else.”
Source: Joy Along the Way: Sixty-Second Readings That Make the Trip Worthwhile
“When beauty's assigned you as a gir it somehow becomes the essenceof your being. It takes over everthing else you might be. When you're a boy, it never dominates who you can be”
“When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.”
Source: Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making
“When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.”
“When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.”
Source: Monty Python Live!
“When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.”
Source: Fox in Socks
“When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.”
“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”
“When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.”
Source: Moby Dick